Author Archive for: ‘Philip Butterss’
A “Careful Little Housewife”: C. J. Dennis and masculinity in The Sentimental Blokes.
As the title of C. J. Dennis’s The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke might suggest, its narrative revolves around questions of masculinity, and as early as 1946, Dennis’s biographer, A. H. Chisholm was speculating as to its author’s personal interest in such questions. He wondered whether Dennis’s predilection for “tough” characters in some of his verse was a reaction to the exaggerated …
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